CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Wittelshofen it runs 316 km to Wittelshofen; allow about 5 h 15 of riding. The stops in between: Watchtowers WP 14/1 to 14/27 including the, Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo, Fort site and civil settlement of Kösching and Weltenburg‐Am Galget - Kleinkastell. The line favours views over speed.
Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through. 34 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it.
There is nothing to climb at Ruffenhofen, and that is the clever part. The Roman fort here, on gently rising ground above the Wörnitz near Weiltingen and Wittelshofen, has never been rebuilt in stone. Instead, the outline of the walls, gates and the buildings of the settlement around it has been traced across the fields with hedges, trees and mown strips, so the whole place reads like a plan drawn in plants. From the little viewing hill you can see the shape of a garrison that has been underground for seventeen centuries.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Ruffenho write-up.
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Fort site and civil settlement of Ruffenho is where the day begins. Next is Watchtowers WP 14/1 to 14/27 including the.
Here the frontier changes character. West of the Franconian lakes the Romans built the Raetian Limes not as a palisade but, in its final form, as a stone wall, a metre or so thick and perhaps three high, running across Middle Franconia toward the Danube. Medieval villagers who found its rubble in their fields had no idea who had built it and called it the Teufelsmauer, the Devil's Wall, which tells you how thoroughly the empire had been forgotten. The watchtowers numbered in this section sat along that wall in the farmland around Pfofeld and Gunzenhausen, close to where the line crosses the Altmühl valley.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 14/1 to 14/27 including the write-up.
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Watchtowers WP 14/1 to 14/27 including the comes up 38 km in. Next is Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo.
Between Greding and Eichstätt, the Raetian Limes runs across the high Franconian Jura plateau, and the names on the map, WP 14/63 to 14/78, are archaeologists' shorthand for a sequence of Roman watchtower sites along this section of the frontier. The Raetian Limes was the wall part of the Upper German-Raetian Limes, inscribed by UNESCO as part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire. Here, the Romans built a stone wall rather than the timber palisade used further west. Locals later called the remains the Teufelsmauer, the Devil's Wall, believing nothing human could have built it.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo write-up.
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76 km in you reach Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Kösching.
North of the Danube, on the edge of the Franconian Jura, the Romans built a string of forts behind the Raetian frontier to guard the river valley and the roads leading to it. Kösching, today a market town near Ingolstadt, was the site of one of them, an auxiliary fort with a civilian settlement around it, home to craftsmen, traders and the families of soldiers. Little is visible today, as the modern town has grown over it, but the site is part of the UNESCO Frontiers of the Roman Empire. The Danube valley was a busy corridor in Roman times, and remains so today.
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Fort site and civil settlement of Kösching, about halfway. Next is Weltenburg‐Am Galget - Kleinkastell.
The Danube does something unexpected just upstream of Kelheim. Instead of wandering across flat Bavarian farmland, it cuts straight through a band of white Jurassic limestone, squeezed between cliffs that rise steeply from the water. This is the Weltenburg Narrows, and on the hill above the abbey at Weltenburg, at the spot called Am Galget, the Romans put a small fort to watch the river and the frontier.
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Weltenburg‐Am Galget - Kleinkastell sits at 151 km, about halfway. Next is back through Fort site and civil settlement of Kösching.
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back through Fort site and civil settlement of Kösching comes up 189 km in. Next is back through Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo.
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227 km in you reach back through Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo. Next is back through Watchtowers WP 14/1 to 14/27 including the.
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back through Watchtowers WP 14/1 to 14/27 including the, late in the day. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Ruffenho.
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Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Ruffenho write-up.
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The route ends here after 316 km.
Fort site and civil settlement of Ruffenho → Watchtowers WP 14/1 to 14/27 including the is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 14/1 to 14/27 including the → Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo → Fort site and civil settlement of Kösching is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site and civil settlement of Kösching → Weltenburg‐Am Galget - Kleinkastell is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Weltenburg‐Am Galget - Kleinkastell → back through Fort site and civil settlement of Kösching is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Kösching → back through Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo → back through Watchtowers WP 14/1 to 14/27 including the is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Watchtowers WP 14/1 to 14/27 including the → Fort site and civil settlement of Ruffenho is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.